Here's one of his staggering quotes [1], worth reading through:
"In those critical years I learned how to be alone. [But even] this formulation doesn't really capture my meaning. I didn't, in any literal sense learn to be alone, for the simple reason that this knowledge had never been unlearned during my childhood. It is a basic capacity in all of us from the day of our birth. However these three
Another excerpt of Grothendieck's that has always stuck with me:
"Since then I’ve had the chance in the world of mathematics that bid me welcome, to meet quite a number of people, both among my 'elders' and among young people in my general age group who were more brilliant, much more ‘gifted’ than I was. I admired the facility with which they picked up, as if at play, new ideas, juggling them as
Grothendieck's non mathematical work has always fascinated me, he really has a great style of writing (judging by “recoltes et semailles”). The great thing about reading the works of people that are as close to mental illness as he was is that they seem to be unable to establish any emotional distance to their works. When someone like…
这里有他一句令人震撼的名言 [1]，非常值得一读： “在那些关键年头里，我学会了如何独处。[但即便]这种表述也没有真正抓住我的原意。在任何字面意义上，我并没有学会独处，原因很简单，因为这种认知在我的童年时期从未被忘却过。从我们出生的那一刻起，它就是所有人共有的一项基本能力。然而这三
Here's one of his staggering quotes [1], worth reading through: "In those critical years I learned how to be alone. [But even] this formulation doesn't really capture my meaning. I didn't, in any literal sense learn to be alone, for the simple reason that this knowledge had never been unlearned during my childhood. It is a basic capacity in all of us from the day of our birth. However these three
格罗滕迪克的《收获与播种》（Récoltes et semailles / Harvest and planting） 20世纪最被低估的数学家之一。
Grothendieck's Récoltes et semailles (Harvest and planting) One of the most underrated mathematicians of the 20th c.
格罗滕迪克的另一段始终让我铭记的摘录： “从那时起，在向我敞开怀抱的数学界里，我很有幸遇到不少人，既有我的‘前辈’，也有与我同龄的年轻人，他们比我更聪明、更有‘天赋’。我羡慕他们吸收新思想时那种仿佛在玩耍般的轻松，摆弄这些思想就像
Another excerpt of Grothendieck's that has always stuck with me: "Since then I’ve had the chance in the world of mathematics that bid me welcome, to meet quite a number of people, both among my 'elders' and among young people in my general age group who were more brilliant, much more ‘gifted’ than I was. I admired the facility with which they picked up, as if at play, new ideas, juggling them as
格罗滕迪克的非数学作品一直让我着迷，他的写作风格真的很棒（从《收获与播种》来看）。阅读那些像他这样接近精神失常边缘的人的作品，妙处就在于他们似乎无法在自己的作品中保持任何情感距离。当像他这样的人……
Grothendieck's non mathematical work has always fascinated me, he really has a great style of writing (judging by “recoltes et semailles”). The great thing about reading the works of people that are as close to mental illness as he was is that they seem to be unable to establish any emotional distance to their works. When someone like…
亚历山大·格罗滕迪克 - 《收获与播种》（Récoltes et Semailles）
Alexander Grothendieck - Récoltes et Semailles
亚历山大·格罗滕迪克的《收获与播种》（Récoltes et semailles / Harvest and plantings）。
"Récoltes et semailles" (Harvest and plantings) by Alexander Grothendieck.